It was like a scene of 20 years ago and pre containerization when all the freight came in palletized.
I am sure the Provincial Governments Northern Strategic Plan is working well some where; it is not evident up here in Nain though.
I am sure glad I am not the receiver of some of the furniture, the ones with the soaked cardboard packaging. Tarps were in use but with minimum staff and constant pick ups what can one person do?
Added to the freight from the Bond was exasperated around three when the Northern Ranger was due in with an additional couple of hundred pallets.
This 60 foot mobile home came off the Bond as well, nice time of year for that, plus it was not on wheels, that is a very different shipping concept.
There was another three loads of wood that arrived as well, that added to the traffic load with its offloading.
So it turned out the mobile home did have wheels, very low to the ground but wheels non the less.
Here it sis doing the hardest of the turns [Z] on its way to the new subdivision.
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They actually shipped a mobile home?? WOW. Wonder who's going to be getting it.
I missed the IDEAS program about the Labradorians shipped to England, wish I had heard it. I was out both nights attending to planning for our variety show, Fran is right, I am really busy with it this Christmas, don't know when I'll have any time to do any Christmas shopping.
Dear Lord, They are discharging un-covered pallets? What happened to shrink wrapping and cover sheets? Who overseas the loading? My thought was to utilize a pallet carrier ship, but use Unit load devices for the smaller shipment. That basically encloses a 3000 lb load in an aluminum weather proof container. That can also integrate with many aircraft. Plus, you can leave the containers and ship out in them too. Load and un-load when time and space allow. And you could still use 20/40 foot containers, bulk goods and ULD's. Plus have electric power for refrigerated containers for seafood shipments.
There are a number of mobile homes up in the new subdivision [not as long as this one though] Ex Sham, they were supposed to have been banned from the community but circumstances have overridden that.
Pathfinder; there is some shrink wrap but it is not universal, it cost extra for LCM to put shrink wrap.
I have had no feed back, nor has anyone else, from Governments as to this debacle and how things can’will be improved next year. It is as though we do not exist except for being taken advantage of, very frustrating.
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